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Homelessness on community college campuses is a bigger problem in our country than we may have known. We speak with Linda Speranza, who has taught ceramics at Mesa Community College for almost 35 years, and she launched a program there called Empty Bowls, which raises money to fight homelessness and hunger.

There’s been some talk in Washington of implementing what’s known as a Border Adjustment Tax. It would basically tax imports coming into the country. We talk with Michelle Ahlmer, executive director of the Arizona Retailers Association.

Nine in 10 Freedom of information experts said in a recent study they expect access to public information to get worse. “What we’ve seen is an increasing level of secrecy at all levels of government really developing over the past 20 or 30 years,” said the study’s author David Cuillier.

Complaints from residents and business owners are leading Phoenix police and Valley Metro to increase security along the light-rail line. Thursday, the Valley Metro Board will be asked to approve 16 more security officer positions to be spread along the 26-mile line. But the 19th Avenue corridor is getting the most attention.

About sixty percent of Arizonans would rather Congress fix the Affordable Care Act than repeal the entire law, according to a new poll. Those are the findings of a new survey from Public Policy Polling commissioned by supporters of the ACA, Save My Care.

The Phoenix Zoo and members of its Board of Trustees are donating about $65,000 to an effort to save an endangered porpoise that lives in the northern Gulf of California. Zoo guests have also donated more than $3,000 to the Saving Animals from Extinction Initiative, which is targeting Mexico’s vaquita porpoise.

If you grew up with an Irish grandfather like I did, you were probably fed a lot of corned beef and cabbage when you were a kid. Or, maybe it was potato latkes on Hanukkah … or, if you’re Mexican-American, maybe it was posole and tamales at Christmas.

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